Strings Quotes

724 quotes by 577 authors

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the â€™80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers,… — Lou Lumenick
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords,… — Gary Burton
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began… — Henry David Thoreau
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all… — Paul Davies
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without… — Philip Warren Anderson
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you… — Iyanla Vanzant
Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached. — Catherine Ponder
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If… — Anne Fine
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch;… — Henry Ward Beecher
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler
What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on… — Michio Kaku
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me. — Lincoln Steffens
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn
There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings. — Lucy Larcom

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